National League Free Agent Arbitration Offers

10 National League teams have free agent arbitration offer decisions to make today, and we'll update them in this post in advance of the 11pm central time deadline. For a fantastic customizable chart with all 57 Type A/B free agents and their teams' decisions in real-time, click here.

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Just the terms of the new collective bargaining agreement. Five players that were Type A free agents, and were obviously going to be hurt by that status, were redesignated as Type B. That frees up the players to sign a deal without penalizing their new club, and also compensates their former club without having to offer arbitration.

So for Cordero, Hernandez and Dotel, who are now B, do their old teams get a free pick without offering arb? Is that an A pick (1st round) or a B pick (supplemental)? And for Bell and Rodriguez, who are still A, their new teams don’t lose a 1st round pick to sign, but does their old team still get a 1st round pick as compensation?

For Cordero, Hernandez, and Dotel, their former clubs would get a sandwich pick if they sign elsewhere.

For Bell, Kelly Johnson, Rodriguez, etc, their clubs have to offer arbitration, the player declines and signs with another club. The new club does not give up a pick, but the former club receives a pick immediately ahead of the new club’s pick, plus a supplemental round pick.

Say the Jays offer arby to Kelly Johnson, he declines and signs with Detroit. The Jays get a first round pick right ahead of Detroit’s pick, plus they get a supplemental round pick.

Clubs will have to offer their potential free agents an amount that is equal to the average salary of the top 125 highest paid major leaguers in order to receive compensation. That number, based on 2011 salaries, is about $ 12.4 million.

The signing team would forfeit it’s first round pick and the former club would receive a pick at the end of the first round, in order of worst record to best. (So, there are still 30 picks in the first round unless some are added).

I wouldn’t give him 3 mill. He has a good glove but he couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat.

SS should be our most important thing this offseason. Prado needs to stay in LF because he had a bad season and will rebound. But we need a good SS and can hit and keep a good BA. I hope by some miracle we could land Jimmy Rollins.

And Jimmy Rollins isn’t that old and he isn’t declining by much. And the money we will save from Mclouth, Kawakami, Chipper in another year, And D.Lowe would be able to pay for Rollins for a few years. And then dumping JJ for prospects would save even more money. Just those guys alone is more than 30 million (Chipper $14, Kawakami $8, D.Lowe $5 and then a few mill for JJ, A-Gon and McLouth)

he can field but cant hit for crap lifetime 700 ops and 250 average , although last year was his best year , so maybe , and i thought the Pastronycky or however spell is name was like the end all be all of SS prospects

What? Dude J-Roll is pretty good, he just won the MVP a few years back. Lifetime .270 BA and .760 OPS. That’s pretty good and WAYYYY better than what A-Gon can do.

I still wouldn’t mind bringing Furcal back IF he would be cheap. I think if he had a injury free year he’d be the best option out there. But that’s if he was injury free.

And yeah Pastornicky isn’t very good. 90% of Brave fans act like he is the Jesus Christ of SS and he isn’t. He’d be a good back up SS guy, but not a 160 game starter. We need a good SS that can hit and field and make us win more. And Pastornicky can hit a little, but his fielding is terrible.

And the Cards just declined on Furcals Arb option. Nows our chance to bring him back, and bring Andruw back to while your at it Frank. He’s lost weight and gotten back to a decent state, would be awesome to bring him back home as back up LF when Prado is playing 3rd when Chipper takes 2 days off a week.

He’s a different player. His statistical increase can be attributed to an off season training regimine that increased his strength and allowed him to drive the ball more. I think he could put up respectable numbers (probably chooch- the obp).

I’m not saying if he’s ready or not, I’m just saying he’s a stronger player.

It will raise a lot. McCann, Uggla, Jurrjens, Prado, O’Flaherty, and Bourn. Around 20 million which is more than what left, and a 95 mill payroll if we’re lucky gives them about 5 mill to spend on a SS. And what SS will sign a 1 yr 5 mill offer in the FA market that represents an improvement over Gonzalez? By the way Barmes got 2 yrs 10.5 million and he is slightly better than Gonzo if that

Yeah I think it’s 13-15 mill a year or something through 2014 I think .Either would be an improvement offensively . But Peralta is in the second year of a 2 year deal worth 11.5 with a team option for 2013 . So for somewhere around or just under 6 mill is what Peralta is gonna be making next year . And he hit .299 with 21 HRs and an OBP of .345 and dWAR of 1.0 last year . So for what both players would be making next year , out of the two , I would actually rather have Peralta .

thats just silly, betancourt’s OBP was .271 and he’s a terrible defender
atleast gonzalez saves runs with his glove, a move to a more hitter friendly park would definetely benefit him, he’s got just enough pop to get over the walls in hitters parks

Curious to see if Ruben takes a chance and offers Oswalt arbitration. A few of the teams after him are either linked to higher ranking free agents or have protected picks. Wouldn’t be surprised, but I don’t think its likely. They gave him a 2 or 3 million dollar buyout and potentially could pay him over $16 million dollars in arbitration, so they’d be paying $19 million for a year of Oswalt. Probably depends on how serious he is about wanting a multi year commitment from somebody.
Madson and Rollins are no brainers though.

Looks like this is going to play out nicely for the Padres. Last week it looked as though Byrnes was going to be screwed over by this new CBA, but now they will get what they want for Bell, 2 draft picks.

These “handshake deals” are just part of the schemes to break the rules which led to the corruption of the whole free agent-draft choice system which is why it has been changed. The Cardinal organization has too much class to participate in this corruption.

Why would the Padres offer Harang arbitration instead of picking up his option? Wouldn’t Harang get more money in arbitration? Either the Padres knew Harang would not pick up his end of the option or they have a handshake deal that Harang will decline arb.

If the Phils can get Lidge to turn down his deal, they are looking at 6 picks I believe (2 from Rollins, 2 from Madson, and one each from Lidge and Ibanez). I don’t think they risk Oswalt, but that would be awesome to make up for losing the one pick for Papelbon.

It’s obvious that he won’t accept actually because of that reason. There is no way the Phillies offer him arbitration thinking there is even a chance he accepts. He probably told them that he would decline the option and try to work out something to come back at a cheaper rate or move on to another team. This happens every year.

I know Amaro has made some bad contractual moves over the years, but even he would not offer arbitration to Raul if he thought for a second he would accept it. As crazy as that sounds, that is what most likely happened.

Phillies website says Oswalt and Lidge were both not offered. “Roy Oswalt and Brad Lidge, the Phillies’ only other rated free agents,
were not offered salary arbitration. There is still seemingly a chance
that Lidge could return next year to work in a bullpen now anchored by
the team’s new closer, Jonathan Papelbon.”

I can’t believe no one commented on Cody Ross? Where are you Giant Fans? Where’s the Love for this guy? As for me, I would like very much for the Orioles to get him, if the Giants don’t offer him anything. Or if the Giants re-sign him, the Orioles should go out and get Aoki. Either way, I would be happy!

…and the Giants trade a recent #1 draft pick for a rental on Carlos Beltran with no possibility of compensation. If they do not resign him, it’s going to be one of the stupiest moves of the 2011 season.